Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS month marks the 276th anniyersary of the first performance of The Fairy Queen before the London rabble. Only Restoration England, as yet uneducated to the subtleties of durchgesungen Italian opera, was capable of producing such an amalgam of song, dance, pagentry, stage effects, and the spoken word--a truly bastard form of entertainment. This particular work is a castrated adaption of A Midsummer Night's Dream liberally interspersed with incidental music in the form of solo songs, ensembles, choruses, and instrumental pieces. With taste and dramatic rectitude thrown to the winds, extravagance is its only excuse and sole salvation...
...only because the negative footage looks well cut; one wonders why Milius didn't make something more consequential. At least it was more consequential than UCLA's second prize animated film, An Idea (Walton White), the idea of which escaped me completely although I'm willing to take their word that one existed somewhere...
Still, to anyone with an ear for Gilbert and Sullivan, Princess Ida can be a completely delightful evening. Although the production of the show which opened at Agassiz last night failed to achieve even this circumscribed end it was always pleasantly theatrical--if this or any other word can suggest the pagentry which attends the most humble G&S composition...
...Response. Collingwood first applied for admission to North Viet Nam last spring but got no reply at all. Then last month, CBS got word that Hanoi might indeed welcome him. Why was he chosen over other American TV newsmen who had also sought a visa? "It's my strong impression," Collingwood told his network audience, "that my entry application was accepted because Hanoi wanted to make a move and decided to make it through CBS News and me. Indeed, I think what appeared to be their response to President Johnson's speech was really what they were going...
...word 'counsel' as used in the statute is so broad as to suppress all discussion of the draft in this country," said William P. Homans Jr., lawyer for Michael K. Ferber 2G, another of the defendants...